This is amazing.
“Well shit… It worked on Wesley Snipes…”
“You mean Blade? The vampire? Dude, he’s classified as undead.”
Blade isn’t undead though…
Lol, totally ad&d but like kk&k or something.
I usually really like these comics, no matter how dark or weird they are. But this one somehow offends me. It somehow gives the impression that black people are only capable of black magic, which would be destructive, and white people are only able to heal. And that feeds into the racist idea that black people are damaging or something. Well, maybe I’m just missing the point.
Nah. I definitely took it as “the KKK doesn’t want to do black magic because it’s… Black (gasp)”.
Same thing as some people going out of their way to not do something as it may make them “gay” or something
Yeah that’s the vibe I got. It implies he only eats white chocolate and prides himself on being a white belt in martial arts. He certainly would never allow his business to be in the black.
Where did you get the impression that black people are only capable of black magic?
This only implies this single white racist is only capable of white magic. It doesn’t say anything about other white racist, let alone about black people in general.
It’s just someone wanting to be offended for the sake of it.
Everybody in this thread is arguing about white vs black magic and forgetting that the KKK leader is called the “Grand Wizard” for real. It’s the reason for this comic.
Also to the people saying that this implies that black people can only cast black magic. That implies that black magic is bad. I disagree, think Final Fantasy.
No, I think there’s something to that. White being used to signify good and black being used for evil. It’s sort of problematically baked into the language. I guess that’s the joke, what with the KKK not really being associated with anything good. Like if they’d accidentally renovated a lot of black churches trying to firebomb them or something.
The problem with that analysis that dichotomy is baked into most of not all human languages. The dark is bad, the light is good. Nearly every religion has a lightbringer reference. It’s basic human psychology.
…which is why pink people and brown people shouldn’t be called white or black.
People shouldn’t be referred to by the colour of their skin unless it’s a descriptor, as in “the dark skinned man over there”.
They should be referred to by their ethnic background if it matters to the conversation.
Usually, if it matters, you don’t know their ethnic background. If you did you’d just use their name. For example, assuming everyone who’s black is African can be pretty problematic. Assuming everyone who’s black is black isn’t.
Sometimes it matters when referring to a unique problem a certain group is facing due to their background, like “the Chinese American diaspora”, you don’t directly refer to individuals that way.
Well sure, if the problem is due to something specific then you want to refer to that specific thing, not some totally different thing. Obviously. That’s not really what was being discussed.
It’s not because he’s a white person. It’s because he’s a White Supremacist, a chosen class.
I don’t like the idea that the KKK is capable of healing magic lol.
I think it’s more the colour of the robes than the skin.
This is about as funny as a “dead baby” joke to me, i.e. not funny at all despite having the same anatomy as a joke.
You won’t be offended when it clicks. Took me weirdly long to get it myself for some reason, even though I had all the background knowledge to put it together. It’s just off-kilter enough to throw ya for a loop 😂
While I completely understand your viewpoint here, and it is absolutely not a comic I would share, because I’ll admit my interpretation could be incorrect, that’s not how I took it. I take it as an inversion of the white/black good/evil dichotomy. White magic is generally considered good, but is being weilded by a clearly and objectively evil person, whereas the black man is capable of withstanding and being unaffected by it means there is some kind of protection over him, to me speaking to the possibility of divine protection from white (read: evil) magic.
It may help that I’m also reading the word white as “hwite” and it makes the klansman look even more like an asshole, but it also creates a difference in my brain between “white magic” little w, as, like, good and righteous magic, and “White magic” big w, racially based shit magic wielded by racist shits.
I’m reading way too much into this because of a preexisting interest in magic systems, and a weird brain that likes to try to turn all soft magic systems into something I can define and understand. Lol. I also have a preexisting dislike of the idea of white/black magic in fantasy, and never use the terms in my own writing for exactly that reason. It’s the same problem with the idea of right/left politics. The human brain is pretty hardwired to think of one direction as good and the other as bad. Which one that is shifts culturally, but in the west right is good, left is bad (Dexter became a name we willingly give our children. Sinister became the word for evil, vice, scary things and danger). Superstition may be stupid and dumb, but our animal brains don’t realize that. Until we reach some enlightenment not yet achieved, people will associate the right with good, even when it’s proven time and again to be dangerous and evil. We are, afterall, dumb monkeys that figured out how to wear clothes and split the atoms. But we’re still just dumb monkeys.
Anyway… Tl:Dr, I read way too much into this, and took it as an inversion of the white/good trope.
Yeah, no. The comic is saying that the racist won’t practice black magic because it has the word black in it. It’s not very deep.
I feel uncomfortable with this one, too. What I read is “KKK members can only do acts of kindness”. Maybe it’s supposed to be sarcastic, but it doesn’t work for me
I think it’s more that white mages in FF tend to wear all white robes.
But yeah, they’ve been getting real bad about toeing the line of going too far lately. There was a comic the other day that all but called their audience r*tarded
They’ve always been this way. One time I got a temp ban on their forum (I don’t think that’s around any longer) and it showed the message “you are banned for x days! Go play outside or do something else” accompanied by a clown and its huge nutsack swinging on the screen. I’m not sure why people expect them to change all of a sudden, it’s part of their appeal.
